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Castellum.AI’s Financial Crime Benchmark Finds Accuracy & Consistency Gaps in Standalone LLMs

Castellum.AI announced its FinCrime Agent Benchmark (FCA Bench) in September that compares the performance of nine standalone large language models (LLMs) performing financial-crime checks and when those same models operate within the Castellum.AI Harness. The benchmark measures risk identification accuracy (sanctions, politically exposed persons (PEPs) and adverse media screening), applying an institution’s standard operating procedures...

5 October 2026

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Date: 14 October 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Equities markets are entering a more distributed, always-on phase. Liquidity is fragmenting across venues and geographies, trading hours are extending toward 24/5 and beyond, and market data volumes, investor expectations and competitive pressure are all rising at once. Many…

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14 October 2026

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Now in its 10th year, the RegTech Summit in New York will bring together the RegTech ecosystem to explore how the North American capital markets financial industry can leverage technology to drive innovation, cut costs and support regulatory change.

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19 November 2026

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Regulatory Data Handbook 2026 – Fourteenth Edition

Welcome to the fourteenth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook. Supervisors increasingly expect firms to demonstrate which rules apply, which data supports each obligation, who owns the control and how exceptions are identified and resolved. Policies and implementation programmes must now be supported by records that can withstand regulatory scrutiny. This edition examines material…

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8 September 2026

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Generative and Agentic AI in Financial Markets: From Pilot to Platform

Financial markets are at an inflection point in their relationship with artificial intelligence. The question is no longer whether to invest, it is how quickly institutions can move from experimentation to operational deployment, and what separates the firms that are scaling from those still stuck in extended pilot phases. The gap is wider than most...

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29 September 2026

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The economics of modernising equities trading infrastructure

Equities markets are becoming more fragmented, interconnected and continuously available. Liquidity is spreading across venues and geographies, trading hours are extending, and firms are processing more market data and supporting increasingly complex execution workflows. These changes are placing new demands on trading infrastructure. Many traditional platforms continue to deliver excellent latency and throughput, but were...

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18 September 2026

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The Integrated Data Overlay Approach to Solving Banks’ Data Challenges

Banks are under intense pressure from a variety of quickly evolving trends. Clients want more from them; market volatility is challenging their trading strategies; and regulator scrutiny is deepening. In response, regional banks and large banking organizations (LBOs) are offering more products to clients and promising ever-more automated access to a greater array of asset...

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10 September 2026

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CUSIP Collaborates with MSCI on Private Markets

CUSIP Global Services has begun a collaboration with MSCI to expand coverage to late-stage, venture-backed private companies among its security identification numbers. MSCI provides access to data on US-domiciled private companies with at least one share class. The collaboration supplies attributes including domicile jurisdiction, dividend details, company name, asset type, and sector classifications alongside identifiers….

7 October 2026

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Moody’s Harnesses Allvue Data for Private Credits Stress Indicator Model

Moody’s Corporation’s launched the Moody’s Analytics EDF-X Private Credit Model to measure credit risk for the private credit market using performance data supplied by Allvue Systems. The model evaluates private credit performance by tracking indicators of borrower stress such as covenant waivers and payment-in-kind arrangements. Moody’s Analytics Chief Executive Christina Kosmowski said: “By combining Allvue’s…

7 October 2026

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Gresham Clients Given Access to New Reconciliation Product

Control Studio, an artificial intelligence-enabled application for Gresham’s Control reconciliation product has been launched, enabling business users to create and maintain reconciliation controls without requiring coding or technical configuration skills. The software uses generative artificial intelligence to translate business requirements into configuration rules for matching, validation and exception workflows. “Control Studio puts the people who…

7 October 2026

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Fitch Adds BMI Data to its Fitch Nexus MCP

Fitch Solutions has introduced BMI data to its Model Context Protocol connector, Fitch Nexus along with expanded capabilities for its CreditSights and Fitch Ratings Research & Data units. The connector links data into enterprise workflows, delivering authenticated and source-attributed credit insights through a single interface. The platform functions as a hub accessible through clients’ internal…

7 October 2026

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OpenAssets and Sui Advance Institutional Tokenisation Standards Under Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust

Digital Assets infrastructure provider OpenAssets is collaborating with blockchain project Sui to advance the development of the Open Tokenised Asset Standard (OTAS) within the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT) organization. OTAS is designed as a neutral, auditable foundation for identity, compliance, asset representation, and reporting, that institutions can build on rather than adopting wholesale. The…

7 October 2026

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OKXICE Joint Venture to Launch TSV for US-listed Equities

OKXICE, the recently formed 50-50 joint venture between Intercontinental Exchange and crypto market OKX, has filed to launch a round-the-clock Tokenised Securities Venue (TSV) under the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s new five-year “Innovation Exemption.” When authorized, the platform will list more than 60 major US-listed equities, distinguishing itself by offering tokens designed to represent direct…

7 October 2026

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PhillipCapital Extends Eventus Trade Surveillance Partnership

Phillip Capital Inc. has extended its long-standing relationship with Eventus, continuing to use the vendor’s Validus platform for trade surveillance across its expanding range of markets. The US-based futures commission merchant and broker-dealer uses Validus to monitor activity across US equities, options, fixed income and global futures, as well as the rapidly developing prediction markets…

6 October 2026

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Rothera Automates High-Volume Derivatives Reconciliations with Smartstream

Rothera has deployed Smartstream’s Air platform to automate high-volume reconciliations across its CFTC-regulated event contract exchange and clearinghouse operations. The implementation uses Air’s Cash and Data modules to replace manual processes and support reconciliation of around 1.7 million transactions each day within an automated, fully audited environment. The initial deployment covers two reconciliation processes, Exchange-to-Clearing…

6 October 2026

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Liquidnet Launches SuperBlock TI for Large Block Liquidity Discovery

Liquidnet has launched SuperBlock Targeted Invitations (TI), extending its liquidity discovery capabilities to help buy-side traders source counterparties for exceptionally large equity orders while controlling how trading interest is distributed. The new functionality builds on Liquidnet’s existing Targeted Invitations capability, allowing traders to share SuperBlock interest with a broader group of potential counterparties while limiting…

6 October 2026

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Bloomberg Automates Market-on-Close Trading for Japanese Government Bonds

Bloomberg has introduced an automated Market-on-Close workflow for Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs), completing the first fully automated trade using the new functionality. Available through Bloomberg Electronic Markets, the workflow aligns execution with BB3P (Hikene Trading), the Market-on-Close reference rate for JGBs, giving traders greater certainty of execution at a specified close time while helping minimise…

6 October 2026

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WisdomTree Rebrands Digital Assets Business

Asset manager WisdomTree has rebranded its digital assets business – formed in 2021 – to WisdomTree Onchain. It encompasses the WisdomTree Connect, WisdomTree Prime, Onchain Transfer Agency and Onchain Markets activities, as well as collaboration with MoonPay and minority investments in businesses, such as Fnality and a financial-institution-led global stablecoin project. The business continues to…

30 September 2026

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Coinbase and Citi Partner to Support Stablecoins for Merchant Clients

Coinbase and Citi have deepened their collaboration to extend Coinbase’s payments infrastructure to Spring by Citi, the bank’s institutional payment acceptance platform. This enables Citi’s enterprise merchant clients to accept stablecoin payments at checkout without the need to hold or manage digital assets directly. Coinbase’s infrastructure handles the automatic conversion of digital currency into fiat,…

30 September 2026

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Feedzai Adds Farol Agent for Fraud Rules, Investigations and SAR Drafting

Feedzai has launched Farol, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent embedded in its RiskOps Studio to analyse fraud-detection rules, retrieve case data, summarise alerts and draft suspicious activity reports (SARs). Embedding the agent within the risk platform gives it access to transaction data and existing investigation workflows. Feedzai positions this approach as an alternative to connecting…

29 September 2026

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Just 4.7% of Financial Institutions Continuously Update Their Compliance Monitoring and Controls – SymphonyAI Research

Only 4.7% of financial institutions update compliance monitoring and controls continuously as risk changes, according to research from SymphonyAI and AML Intelligence. A further 56.8% have yet to adopt continuous monitoring, are exploring it or remain at the pilot stage. The FinCrime Frontier 2026–27 Report draws on responses from more than 200 financial crime and…

29 September 2026

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MCO Secures More Than $100 Million to Expand Compliance Platform and AI

MCO, the provider of MyComplianceOffice, has secured more than $100 million in growth financing from Accel-KKR Credit Partners to fund product development, artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and market expansion. The company plans to expand its technology team and invest further in its integrated compliance platform. MyComplianceOffice brings together controls for employee activity, communications, financial transactions…

29 September 2026

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Tokenovate Taps L’Heveder as CRO

Post-trade settlement specialist Tokenovate has hired William L’Heveder as its Chief Revenue Officer. He brings more than a decade of experience across capital markets, strategy and commercial leadership, with over seven years at BMLL, a provider of historical market data and analytics. He also worked as Boston Consulting Group and as a derivatives trader. His…

7 October 2026

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Crypto Advocate Hester Peirce Departs SEC for Academia

Hester Peirce has left her Commissioner role at the US Securities & Exchange Commission after an eight-year tenure. During her time at the regulator she consistently advocated for rules and positions that encouraged the advancement of crypto and digital assets. Peirce also oversaw the SEC’s Crypto Task Force since January 2025, during which time the…

7 October 2026

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Broadridge Recruits Golden as Head of Tokenised Product

Broadridge Financial Solutions announced the appointment of Theo Golden, CFA, as Head of Tokenised Product, International, a newly created role. Golden will lead tokenised product development across Broadridge’s international markets, helping global clients adopt compliant, interoperable digital asset solutions at scale. Based in London, Golden will focus on designing, building and bringing to market tokenised…

7 October 2026

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Tokenovate Appoints William L’Heveder as Chief Revenue Officer

Tokenovate has appointed former BMLL executive William L’Heveder as Chief Revenue Officer, with responsibility for expanding the company’s commercial pipeline and driving institutional adoption of its post-trade and programmable settlement technology. L’Heveder spent more than seven years at BMLL, where he helped scale the historical market data and analytics provider through to its acquisition in…

6 October 2026

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Connamara Technologies Promotes Daniel Davis to President

Connamara Technologies has promoted Daniel J. Davis to President as the trading infrastructure provider targets further expansion across new markets, geographies and asset classes. Davis was previously Chief Revenue Officer and has been with Connamara since 2022, initially joining as Head of Growth. He has played a central role in developing the company’s commercial strategy…

6 October 2026

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Valstro Appoints Chris Valpone as Head of Sales

Valstro has appointed Chris Valpone as Head of Sales as the cloud-native order management system provider expands its US operations and moves into its next phase of commercial growth. Valpone joins from Quod Financial, where he served as Head of Sales for the Americas. He brings 25 years of financial services experience, including senior sales…

30 September 2026

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DTCC Appoints Samir Pandiri as Chief Client Officer

DTCC has appointed Samir Pandiri as Managing Director and Chief Client Officer, joining the company’s Executive Committee and reporting to President and CEO Frank LaSalla. Pandiri will oversee DTCC’s Global Client Management organisation, including client leads, relationship management and growth, partnerships and strategic alliances. His remit also covers DTCC Consulting Services and Marketing & Communications,…

30 September 2026

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Trading Technologies Names Maxime Jeanniard du Dot to Lead Margin Business

Trading Technologies (TT) has promoted Maxime Jeanniard du Dot to EVP, Margin Analytics, giving him responsibility for the TT Margin business created following the company’s acquisition of OpenGamma in December. Jeanniard du Dot spent 10 years as Chief Operating Officer of OpenGamma before its acquisition by TT. The firm’s margin analytics technology is used by…

30 September 2026

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Apex Group Taps Ouaknine as Global Head of Digital Markets Infrastructure & Wealth Distribution

Apex Group has appointed Jørgen Ouaknine as Global Head of Digital Markets Infrastructure & Wealth Distribution. Based in New York City and reporting to Georges Archibald, CEO of Apex Distribution Ouaknine will oversee the firm’s strategy across digital markets infrastructure and wealth distribution. In this role, he focuses on expanding relationships with digital exchanges, financial…

30 September 2026

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Broadridge Appoints Alex Duggan to Lead International BPO Growth

Broadridge Financial Solutions has appointed Alex Duggan as Head of BPO International, with responsibility for expanding its business process outsourcing operations across EMEA and Asia-Pacific. Duggan will also oversee the continued development of Broadridge’s Glasgow hub, which the company is positioning as a strategic UK centre for client service, operational innovation and technology-led delivery. The…

24 September 2026

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Behavox Appoints Former Macquarie Surveillance Head Rich Ziegenbalg as Executive Advisor

Behavox has appointed former Macquarie Group surveillance head Rich Ziegenbalg as Executive Advisor, adding three decades of banking experience to its work with compliance and surveillance teams. Ziegenbalg will advise Behavox customers and prospective clients on surveillance target operating models, control frameworks and programme maturity. He will also contribute to the company’s regulatory strategy, industry…

23 September 2026

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VoxSmart Adds Sales and Customer Engagement Leaders Following VX1 Launch

VoxSmart has appointed Royce Wilkie as Global Sales Director and Andy Faulknall as Head of Customer Engagement following the launch of its VX1 communications compliance platform. Wilkie will lead the company’s sales activity across its target financial markets. He brings more than a decade of experience working with asset managers and investment banks on communications…

23 September 2026

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DataFi Appoints Flannery to Lead Institutional Markets and Ecosystems

DataFi Grouph has appointed Heather Leigh Flannery as its new Head of Institutional Markets and Canton Network/Ethereum Ecosystems. In this role, Flannery is tasked with leading the company’s commercial launch, expanding its footprint in the US market, managing strategic partnerships and driving policy and regulatory engagement across the institutional finance sector. The appointment serves as a strategic…

23 September 2026

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Arcesium Appoints New President, Revenue and Commercial

Arcesium has appointed Brian Rosenberg as President, Revenue and Commercial to oversee client development, partner development and go-to-market strategy. Rosenberg previously worked at Wilshire Indexes as President and Chief Revenue Officer, and held positions at Qontigo, FTSE Russell, LSEG, SunGard, MSCI and RiskMetrics Group over 20 years. The role involves reporting to Chief Executive Gaurav…

16 September 2026

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Gresham Appoints Former Allvue Leader as Chief Product & AI Officer

Gresham Technologies has named Davit Harutyunyan as Chief Product & AI Officer to lead product strategy, management, innovation and AI. Harutyunyan previously worked as Head of Product, Platform & Innovation at Allvue Systems and held leadership roles at Fidessa and CQG during two decades in capital markets technology. Gresham chief executive Spiros Giannaros said that…

16 September 2026

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Market & Alt Data Insight Awards – USA

Building on our expansion into the alternative data market, A-Team Group is proud to be launching a new awards program. These awards will recognize and celebrate the industry’s most innovative providers and services, spotlighting excellence in this rapidly evolving space.

18 September 2026

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Data Management Insight Awards USA

We are thrilled to unveil the winners of the Data Management Insight Awards USA 2026. These awards celebrate the leading vendor solutions and companies that deliver high-value, innovative data management capabilities to financial institutions in capital markets across North America.

28 September 2026

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AI in Capital Markets Awards

Voting is now closed for the 2nd Annual AI in Capital Markets Awards 2026. These awards have been designed to recognise exceptional AI applications advancing innovation in capital markets.

14 October 2026

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Bloomberg Enterprise MCP Brings Market Data into the Agentic AI Workflow

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BMLL and Simudyne Bring Reactive AI Simulation to Trading and Market Structure

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Where Should Trading Firms Spend Their Latency Budget?

6 October 2026

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Nasdaq Calypso Builds Agentic Layer for the Shift to Always-On Markets

6 October 2026

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Chainlink Launches CCIP 2.0 to Support Blockchain Interoperability, Underpins Swift Ledger Transactions

7 October 2026

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Fiserv Launches Digital Asset Platform and Support for Roughrider Coin

7 October 2026

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Adapting to an AI-Dominated World: Data Management Summit New York City Review

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Google Just Put a Price on Old Enterprise Data

6 October 2026

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Adapting to an AI-Dominated World: Data Management Summit New York City Review

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FCA Opens Consultation on New Transaction Reporting Regime

6 October 2026

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RegTech Summit New York

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07 October 2026
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15 October 2026
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01 December 2026
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02 December 2026
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